Short Biography

Mark Crovella is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at
Boston University, where he has been since 1994. From 2013 to 2018 he
served as Department Chair. From 2012 to 2014 he
served as Chief Scientist of Guavus, Inc.
During 2003-2004 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the
Laboratoire d'Infomatique de Paris VI (LIP6). He received a B.S. from
Cornell University in 1982, and an M.S. from the State University of New
York at Buffalo. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Rochester in 1994. From 1984 to 1994 he worked at
Calspan Corporation in Buffalo NY, eventually as a Senior Computer
Scientist.

His research interests span both computer networking and network
science. Much of his work has been on improving the understanding,
design, and performance of parallel and networked computer systems,
mainly through the application of data mining, statistics, and
performance evaluation. In the networking arena, he has worked on
characterizing the Internet and the World Wide Web. He has explored the
presence and implications of self-similarity and heavy-tailed
distributions in network traffic and Web workloads. He has also
investigated the implications of Web workloads for the design of
scalable and cost-effective Web servers. In addition he has made
numerous contributions to Internet measurement and modeling; and he has
examined the impact of network properties on the design of protocols and
the construction of statistical models. In the network science arena, he
has focused on the analysis of social, biological, and data networks.
As of 2017, Google Scholar reports over 25,000 citations to his work. He
has given numerous invited talks and tutorials, and is a founder of and
consultant to companies involved in Internet technologies.

Professor Crovella is co-author of Internet Measurement:
Infrastructure, Traffic, and Applications (Wiley Press, 2006) and
is the author of over two hundred papers on networking and computer
systems. He holds ten patents deriving from his research. Between 2007
and 2009 he was Chair of ACM SIGCOMM. He is a past editor for
Computer Communication Review, IEEE-ACM Transactions on
Networking, Computer Networks and IEEE Transactions on
Computers. He was the Program Chair for the 2003 ACM SIGCOMM
Internet Measurement Conference and for IFIP Networking
2010, and the General Chair of the 2005 Passive and Active
Measurement Workshop. His paper (with Azer Bestavros)
“Self-Similarity in World Wide Web Traffic: Evidence and Possible
Causes” received the 2010 ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award, and his
paper (with Gonca Gursun, Natali Ruchansky, and Evimaria Terzi) “Routing
State Distance: A Path-Based Metric for Network Analysis” won a 2013
IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize. Professor Crovella is a
Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE.